Cisco Secure Firewall for Financial Institutions At-a-Glance

Turn your entire network into an extension of your security architecture

With your business-critical applications increasingly using hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and with employees now needing secure access to resources from everywhere, the traditional firewall approach no longer works. The single network perimeter has evolved to multiple micro-perimeters. For many financial institutions the application is the new perimeter, and traditional firewall deployments have evolved to a mixture of physical, virtual, and cloud-native appliances. As a result, companies are struggling to operationalize support for modern application environments. The challenge is to maintain consistent visibility, policy enforcement, and uniform threat visibility without opening vulnerabilities that expose the business to risk.

At Cisco, we’re building a network security vision, NetWORK, that enables a more agile, automated, and integrated approach for harmonizing policies and enforcement across modern dynamic applications and increasingly heterogeneous networks. Cisco Secure Firewall gives you the deepest set of integrations between core networking functions and network security, delivering the most secure architecture ever. The result is a complete security portfolio that protects your applications and users everywhere.

Benefits

●     Real-time, unified workload and network security for integrated control across dynamic application environments.

●     Platform approach to network security, leveraging and sharing intelligence from key sources for faster detection, response, and remediation. Safeguard remote workers with highly secure enterprise access anytime, anywhere, from any device, with powerful threat prevention capabilities that protect the company, employees, and critical applications.

●     SecureX^™ entitlement included with every Cisco^® Secure Firewall, for a tightly integrated approach to security that enables threat correlation across the Cisco Secure portfolio and accelerates incident response.

Superior visibility and control

Threats have become more sophisticated, and networks have become more complex. Very few, if any, financial institutions have the resources to dedicate to staying up to date and successfully fending off these constantly emerging and evolving threats.

As threats and networks become more complex, it is imperative to have the right tools to protect your data, applications, and networks. Cisco Secure Firewalls have the power and flexibility that you need to stay one step ahead of threats. They offer a dramatic 3x performance boost over the previous generation of appliances, in addition to unique hardware-based capabilities for inspecting encrypted traffic at scale. As well, the human-readable rules of Snort 3 IPS help simplify security. Dynamic application visibility and control is available through the Cisco Secure Workload integration, for consistent protection for today’s modern applications across the network and workload.

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Simplified and consistent policy management

With the Secure Firewall portfolio, you gain a stronger security posture, equipped with future-ready, flexible management. Cisco offers a variety of management options tailored to meet your business needs.

●     Cisco Secure Firewall Device Manager: Manages a single firewall locally; this is an on-device management solution to Firewall Threat Defense.

●     Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center: Manages a large-scale firewall deployment. It is available in all form factors, such as on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and Software as a Service (SaaS).

●     Cisco Defense Orchestrator: A cloud-based manager that streamlines security policies and device management across multiple Cisco products, such as Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki^® MX, and Cisco IOS^® devices.

Cisco also offers Cisco Security Analytics and Logging for scalable log management. It enhances threat detection and meets compliance mandates across the organization with longer retention and behavioral analysis capabilities.

Why Cisco?

The Cisco Secure Firewall portfolio delivers greater protections for your network against an increasingly evolving and complex set of threats. With Cisco, you’re investing in a foundation for security that is both agile and integrated, leading to the strongest security posture available today and tomorrow.

From your data center, branches, corporate offices, cloud environments, and everywhere in between, you can leverage the power of Cisco to turn your existing network infrastructure into an extension of your firewall solution, resulting in world-class security controls everywhere you need them.

Investing in a Secure Firewall appliance today gives you robust protections against even the most sophisticated threats without compromising performance when inspecting encrypted traffic. Further, integrations with other Cisco and third-party solutions provides you with a broad and deep portfolio of security products, all working together to correlate previously disconnected events, eliminate noise, and stop threats faster.

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Next steps

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